What bearing should the implementation have upon the concept so long as the concept is not describing a different end result? Isn't the whole point of different levels of abstraction to enable, in as many instances as workable anyway, people to disregard how things work at the lower level? The microcode in the processor knows nothing of sv_this and av_that, after all.

Let's go with the idea that it's the list assignment operator that is the only thing returning anything there. It returns to the scalar() built-in the count of elements in the list. What returns results to the list on the left, which receives as many results as there are elements present to take them? Isn't that also the list assignment operator? If it's returning something to scalar() and it's returning something to ( $x, $y ) as well, then you have a single operator returning two results in two different contexts within the same expression.

In reply to Re^14: If you believe in Lists in Scalar Context, Clap your Hands by mr_mischief
in thread If you believe in Lists in Scalar Context, Clap your Hands by gone2015

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